Sentences with phrase «plant breeding do»

Benbrook agreed that studies on genetically modified food show there are no new or different risks that other forms of plant breeding don't already pose, but he also said that studies indicate there is a possibility that genetically modified food may pose a higher risk.

The obstacle to the other crops being adopted is that there just hasn't been enough plant breeding done to sufficiently improve perennial wheat and sorghum and test them in farmers» fields.

Not exact matches

We do this by helping improve plant breeds, better manage increasingly scarce resources such as water, and keep pests and diseases at bay.

«The majority of nonscientists don't understand the process of conventional plant breeding,» Dale explains, «so it is very hard for them to understand GM.»

Mitch Tuinstra, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Purdue, likened Schulz's work with corn to what Norman Borlaug did for the development of high - yield wheat crops in the 1960s and 1970s.

«Just because a plant or animal trait is common today doesn't mean that it was bred into them from the beginning,» Larson said.

Those approaches should include modern conventional plant - breeding methods, sustainable and organic farming, and other sophisticated farming practices that do not require farmers to pay significant up - front costs.

(Ill - fitting because humans have been indirectly, and much less precisely, modifying plant and animal genomes for thousands of years via selective breeding, and evolution has been doing it for as long as there has been life on Earth.)

Plant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in CPlant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in Cplant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in China.

Nor do they know what such changes mean for the food web; for life - cycle events like migration, breeding and nesting; for the amount of moisture that trees will suck from the soil; or for the amount of carbon dioxide stored by plants.

As plant breeding becomes more sophisticated, so does measuring the results of large field experiments.

Humans have been altering animals and plants through selective breeding for millennia; but, because these changes typically reduce the capacity for survival and reproduction in the wild, they do not spread to wild populations.

Doug received his PhD in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and did postdoctoral research in plant genetic engineering at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge Engplant genetic engineering at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge EngPlant Breeding Institute in Cambridge England.

Because we are cutting and pasting genes into plants that normally would not be present through traditional cross breeding and into these supposedly useless non-coding regions, what are we really doing to our food?

So, it does contain some plant proteins but it should have enough animal protein for growing small breed puppies.

Do not fall into the trap set by low - quality pet food manufacturers who sell breed - specific formulas that offer low to moderate nutritional value at best — these manufacturers also tend to make use of non-nutritive fillers to bulk up their products as well as plant - based proteins to increase the protein content without actually adding more meat.

A new breed of solar panel can do double duty on greenhouse roofs by not only generating renewable electricity, but also by using a light - altering dye to help optimize photosynthesis in the plants beneath them.

While few of us are likely to start bumblebee breeding programs to boost genetic diversity, we might do well to plant pollinator - friendly gardens, support sustainable agricultural practices, and encourage the world to move from conservation into habitat restoration and earth repair as we enter 2011.

Plant breeding is completely different than creating GMO's and has been done for centuries.